Author: Gabriel HARVEYPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 88
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G. Harvey's Third Letter, from Foure Letters, and certain Sonnets, especially touching R. Greene, and other parties by him abused, but incidently of diverse excellent persons and some matters of note, etc
Author: Gabriel HARVEYFovre Letters, and Certaine Sonnets
Author: Gabriel HarveyEnglish Drama
Author: Katharine Lee BatesPublisher:
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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William Stanley as Shakespeare
Author: John M. RollettPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 147661900X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
Presenting striking new evidence, this book shows that "William Shakespeare" was the pen name of William Stanley, son of the Earl of Derby. Born in 1561, he was educated at Oxford, travelled for three years abroad, and studied law in London, mixing with poets and playwrights. In 1592 Spenser recorded that Stanley had written several plays. In 1594 he unexpectedly inherited the earldom--hence the pen name. He became a Knight of the Garter in 1601, eligible to help bear the canopy over King James at his coronation, likely prompting Sonnet 125's "Wer't ought to me I bore the canopy?"--he is the only authorship candidate ever in a position to "bear the canopy" (which was only ever borne over royalty). Love's Labour's Lost parodies an obscure poem by Stanley's tutor, which few others would have read. Hamlet's situation closely mirrors Stanley's in 1602. His name is concealed in the list of actors' names in the First Folio. His writing habits match Shakespeare's as deduced from the early printed plays. He was a patron of players who performed several times at court, and financed the troupe known as Paul's Boys. No other member of the upper class was so thoroughly immersed in the theatrical world.
Shakespeare's Companies
Author: Mr Terence G Schoone-JongenPublisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 1409475131
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 459
Book Description
Focusing on a period (c.1577-1594) that is often neglected in Elizabethan theater histories, this study considers Shakespeare's involvement with the various London acting companies before his membership in the Lord Chamberlain's Men in 1594. Locating Shakespeare in the confusing records of the early London theater scene has long been one of the many unresolved problems in Shakespeare studies and is a key issue in theatre history, Shakespeare biography, and historiography. The aim in this book is to explain, analyze, and assess the competing claims about Shakespeare's pre-1594 acting company affiliations. Schoone-Jongen does not demonstrate that one particular claim is correct but provides a possible framework for Shakespeare's activities in the 1570s and 1580s, an overview of both London and provincial playing, and then offers a detailed analysis of the historical plausibility and probability of the warring claims made by biographers, ranging from the earliest sixteenth-century references to contemporary arguments. Full chapters are devoted to four specific acting companies, their activities, and a summary and critique of the arguments for Shakespeare's involvement in them (The Queen's Men, Strange's Men, Pembroke's Men, and Sussex's Men), a further chapter is dedicated to the proposition Shakespeare's first theatrical involvement was in a recusant Lancashire household, and a final chapter focuses on arguments for Shakespeare's membership in a half dozen other companies (most prominently Leicester's Men). Shakespeare's Companies simultaneously opens up twenty years of theatrical activity to inquiry and investigation while providing a critique of Shakespearean biographers and their historical methodologies.
Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Society of Writers to H. M. Signet in Scotland
Author: Signet Library (Great Britain)Publisher:
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Category : Early printed books
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore ...
Author: George Peabody LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Dictionary catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 854
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Catalogue of the Barton Collection
Author: Boston Public Library. Barton CollectionPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 888
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Catalogue of the Barton Collection, Boston Public Library
Author: Boston Public Library. Barton CollectionPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 892
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A Life of William Shakespeare
Author: Sir Sidney LeePublisher:
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description